WICB news release
Marshall and Morris hit half-centuries to lead the Barbadians past Canada by eight wickets,
At the Arnos Vale Sports Complex: Marshall hit five fours and five sixes in the top score of 58 from 62 balls and Morris struck two fours and four sixes in an unbeaten 54 from 57 balls to drive tournament leaders Barbados to victory with 92 balls remaininng.
Marshall shared 45 for the first wicket with prolific, fellow opener Shian Brathwaite and WINDIES Under-15 graduate Nico Reifer to give Barbados a solid foundation.
But it was an 86-run, unbroken third-wicket stand between Morris and Reifer, not out on 35, that carried the Barbadians over the threshold.
Earlier, WINDIES Under-19 left-arm spinner Joshua Bishop starred with the ball, grabbing 4-28 from his allotted 10 overs, but Canada put up their best batting performance of the tournament to reach 175 in 45.3 overs.
See scorecard here:
https://svgcricket.org/cwiu19-2018/results/12th-match-canada-u19-vs-barbados-u19/
Eddie Norfolk adds:-
Canadian U19 Second Wicket Stand Highest So Far in Windies U19 Regional One-Dayers
Canada’s second wicket stand between Benjamin Calitz and Ravi Sandhu of 89 against (20 overs) is the highest second wicket stand in the current Windies U19 One-Day championship. The way this tournament has been unfolding, if you could tick along at a rate of 89 runs per 20 overs for the 50 available overs then a team can reach a total around 220 to 230 that is defendable or brings victory batting second.
This Canadian second wicket stand of 89 is the second best of the tournament behind the one and only century stand, so far. The century stand came in the opening round of matches when Kirmani Melius (86) and Johnson Alexander (58) posted 146 for the Windward Islands against Jamaica. Melius followed with 65 against the Leeward Islands, slipped to just 4 against Barbados, then made a duck against Trinidad and Tobago, as did Alexander. Alexander also failed to score a run against Barbados after scoring 9 in the second game against the Leewards.
The previous best second wicket stand was 53 (8.4 ov) by Kevelon Anderson and Joshua Persaud for Guyana against Canada. Opening bat Persaud’s 80* formed the backbone of Guyana’s victory. Anderson made 12, which does not seem a lot but if your batters manage to make starts and reach double figures then the next steps are moving towards fifties and then carrying on towards and beyond the century mark. Henry Osinde congratulated Kavian Naress for scoring 57 in the opening game against Guyana, then made similar comments on facebook about the need to press on to bigger scores and make fifties or more on a consistent basis on the path to becoming a quality batter.
It was quite a good start by Kavian Naress, given that the Canadian squad only traveled to St Vincent early on the day before the game. His 57 was close to his best 2018 ICC U19 Cricket World Cup score of 61, made against West Indies U19s. Kavian scored 26* in a warm-up game against Bangladesh U19s before scoring a fifty in one of his three U19 CWC innings. So with two Windies U19 One Day championship games to go for Canada there is a chance of two more 50s for Kavian Naress and for the rest of the Canadian batters.
Canada U19s close with potentially tough games against Trinidad and Tobago U19s on Saturday (August 25, 2018) and the Windward Islands U19s on Monday (August 27, 2018). Canada U19s then exit the playing stage while the six Windies regional teams contest the closing round of matches next Wednesday (August 29, 2018).